The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area is one of 19 listed World Heritage properties in Australia. Extending across 40 reserves on Australia’s east coast, the property is recognised by UNESCO for its examples of major stages of the Earth’s evolutionary history, ongoing geological and biological processes, and exceptional biological diversity. The changing climate poses a threat to the unique habitats in the World Heritage Area and to the species that live there.

We undertook a scoping exercise to determine ways that climate change science could meaningfully contribute to the management of Gondwana Rainforests WHA in a changing climate. A central activity was a workshop bringing together experts from key agencies to discuss available climate change projections for relevant regions and to identify specific data needs for ongoing climate change adaptation planning.

The case study identified cloud projections as an important gap in available information. Building on the preliminary work in this case study, these projections are now being developed in a subsequent case study.

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The Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub is working with the managers of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area to provide climate change information to assist with planning and decision making.